"I've made the case that we will have both the hardware and the software to achieve human level artificial intelligence with the broad suppleness of human intelligence including our emotional intelligence by 2029,"

One opponent is an executive member of the National Pure Water Assoc., which has helped keep fluoride out of England's water since 1960. "It's a fundamental human rights question. It's medication without individual consent."

Crocodiles are ferocious creatures that will eat snakes, buffalo, cattle and even people. New research explains crocodiles' spectacular method of digesting large whole meals that lets them eat 23 percent of their body weight at once, bones and al

Our gift of the gab is all due to a small horseshoe-shaped bone suspended in the muscles of our neck, like a piece of fruit trapped in Jell-O. The hyoid bone, is the only bone not connected to any other, is found only in humans and Neanderthals.

So while any baby born through this method would have genetic elements from three people, the nuclear DNA that influences appearance and other characteristics would not come from the woman providing the donor egg.

The Centers for Disease Control updated its investigation of an outbreak of a paralyzing condition that is affecting certain meat processing plant workers who use compressed air to remove the brains from the heads of pig carcases.

He imagines a time when anyone from police to identity thieves to stalkers might scan locked car trunks, garages or home offices from a distance. "Think of it as a high-tech form of Dumpster diving," says Rasch,

Scientists today announced that they have crafted a bacterial genome from scratch, moving one step closer to creating entirely synthetic life forms (Are we smart enough to mess with the foundations of life? What will Bad Guys do with this info?)

Mrs F. wears the SenseCam on a lanyard around her neck when she does an activity. The SenseCam will take hundreds of images with its wide-angle view. Then Mrs. F reviews the images. "At the end she has a fantastic recollection of the event,**QQ*

A California company announced Thursday that it has created cloned human embryos from adult skin cells, a breakthrough which could ultimately lead to the development of cures for Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's....

The military, for example, administers amphetamines to pilots flying long distances, and has funded research into new drugs like orexin A in an effort to help troops stay awake with the fewest side effects.

The gigantic ocean-dwelling whale may have evolved from a land animal the size of a small raccoon. What might be the missing evolutionary link between whales and land animals is an odd animal that looks like a long-tailed deer without antlers

Synthetic DNA to produce a fuel alternative from a diet of corn syrup and sugar cane. So efficient are the bugs' synthetic metabolisms that LS9 predicts it will be able to sell the fuel for just $1.25 a gallon.